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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
The campaign in the Netherlands, of 1586, will be ever memorable in the English annals for the heroic death of Sir Philip Sidney, one of the brightest ornaments of the reign of Elizabeth.
page 28 note a Vol. i. p. 53.
page 28 note b Zouch's Memoirs of Sir P. Sidney, p. 253.
page 28 note c Sidney Papers, vol. i. p. 104.
page 28 note d “Fecerat hoc prius Alexander [Alexander Farnese, prince of Parma and Placentia] ipse, compositâque ad Verdugum epistolâ et equiti ex leviter armatis traditâ ilium præmonuerat de commeatu postridie in urbem invehendo, jussu cum peditibus mille sub auroram venientibus occurrere. Sed, capto equite a Lochemi bostilis oppidi præsidiariis, transmissa ad Leicestrium epistola,” &c.—Strada de bello Belgico, tom. 2, sub ao. 1586.
page 29 note e “Nec proeul a pernicie Vastius erat, quem Dueis militisque partes fortiter obeuntem, latâ securi aggressus, Anglus eques à tergo oppressions haud dubiè videbatur, nisi hunc ferrum attollentem, periculum in terapore conspicatus, eques Hispanus, directâ in pectus lanceâ, medium transfodisset.” Strada.
page 29 note f Cadebant utrinque multi: ipsum Annibalem, equo excussum, letaliterque saucium pro mortuo habere.”—Ibid.
page 29 note g “Capto Georgio Crescia, ductore Epirotarum.”—Strada.
page 30 note h Among these, the earl of Essex and the lords Willoughby and North were most distinguished.
page 30 note i Strada states that the convoy consisted of 300 waggons of provisions, sufficient for a three months' supply of 4000 men; and he asserts that, Leicester slackening his efforts after the skirmish, the provisions were received into the town.
page 30 note j The German auxiliary cavalry expected by Leicester.
page 30 note k A flag or ensign, so called from being carried by a Cornet of Horse.
page 30 note l Original letter, in the State Paper Office, dated “Camp at Sutphen, 22 Sept. 1586.”
page 31 note m Postscript to a letter, preserved in the same repository, from Leicester to the Lord Treasurer, dated “Camp before Zutphen, 27 Sept. 1586.”
page 31 note n Vitellius, C. xvii. 382.
page 32 note o A mixed dialect of German, Flemish, and Dutch.
page 32 note p The will and codicil (the former dated on the last day of September) were not proved until the 19th June, 1589, a delay which arose, without doubt, from the embarrassed state of the testator's affairs, as unfolded by the letter of Walsingham, first published in your valuable collection, Orig. Letters, Vol. iii. 1st series, p. 15. It is, however, but just to observe that the debts for which Sidney was liable were not wholly his own; and that a portion (probably a large portion) of them had been incurred by his father, Sir Henry Sidney, who died in May preceding. For the discharge of both, Sir Philip provides by his will; therein directing the necessary sale, for the purpose, of a part of the family estates, under a power which, he states, had been already vested in Sir Francis Walsingham.
page 32 note q It is painful, even at this distance of time, to reflect how grievously, whether from ignorance or want of skill, the noble patient was tormented by his surgical attendants, of whom no less than five are legatees in the will and codicil, “for the pains which they take in this my hurt.” In the codicil, “Isert, the bone-setter,” as if exercising a distinct profession from that of surgeon, is rewarded with 20l. Although the testamentary papers are upon record, the originals have, I find upon inquiry, not been preserved in the registry of the Prerogative Court.
page 35 note r The Earl of Leicester.
page 36 note s In the original “zein G.,” which is supposed to denote “zyn Generaelschap,” literally “his Generalship.”
page 36 note t This passage confirms the information, derived from another source, that Leicester, after securing Deventer, came to Arnheim on the 15th October, to visit his dying relative.—Sidney Papers.